The evening world., 1887-12-24

G. A. j. Queckberner. The livery stable de-
mands were represented by John Quinn, Of
Harlem, and Charlie Ebbett, of Brooklyn,
was another interceded for tobogganing
claims.
When the crowd got SO great that the over
worked weather manager hadn't room to
stand in his Office he cleared it like q flash by
announcing that a blizzard had got a good
start and was well on the way from the neigh
borhood of Minnesota.
Sport of all kinds will flourish in New
York and vicinity next Monday unless all
signs fail. Every pool and billiard room
for turkeys, chickens and other prizes in all
the big galleries like Conlin's, the one at the
White Elephant and Pomeroy's.
Bowling and Switchboard will be played
number. The New York and the Manhattan
Athletic Clubs and all the smaller athletic
associations will put their best foot forward
in assisting members to have the merriest of
merry Christmases.
Up on the road fast horses will draw
Christmas loads of ruddy-cheeked, healthy
road drivers and fair women. If the prom
Use of q blizzard is kept, snowballs will be
shot back from flying hoofs and the pleasure
seekers in sleighs and cutters can look fruit
lessly over white wastes above McComb's
Dam bridge for familiar landmarks deep
hidden in their winter covering:
That enterprising Brooklyn Club the Pros
pect Harriers, whose clubhouse is close to
the park which the boys named their ~associa-
ton after, will have a Christmas Day run
next Monday morning.. 1t will start from
Petit's Hotel at Jamaica, l.. l., at 1890
o'clock. A better way of getting up an APP
petite for a Christmas dinner could not be
imagined. A number of friends of the men,
bers propose to run with them. The leaders
will do well not to set the pace quite as hot
as they sometimes do if they want to gain
new members. d.
The inaugural meeting of the Hampstead
Coursing Club will take place Christmas Day
morning, too. The members will meet az
the Meadow Brook Polo Grounds and enjoy
the first fox-terrier coursing races ever held
in America. There are to be W. of them.
The first s AXE is the Initiate, for fox terriers
of 20 pounds and less. The second is a
consolation race for the pets that did not win
erned by very much the same rules that hold
in a greyhound c%oursing match.
The Spartan Harriers will have one of their
fortnightly paper chases from the Franklin
house, at Tarrytown, and the Suburban Har-
riers will have a like race for the Fitzpatrick
cup, starting from the Fitzpatrick mansion,
in Fordham, at II A NJ. on Christmas Day.
The American Athletic Club will hold still
another paper chase at Fort Lee on the same
day.
In the afternoon lovers of good hard box
ing will cross to Hoboken to see the six-round
glove contest in Odd Fellows Hall between
Harry Langdon and Mysterious Bill" Ga
big, of Philadelphia.
The Twenty-third Regiment, of Brooklyn,
has arranged a big indoor lawn ennis tour
nament for the evening of Christmas Day. 1t
is its second annual indoor meeting. PLAY
will be begun in the armory in Clermont
avenue at $50 o'clock.
An interstate main of cocks has been per-
fected for Christmas night. commencing
along towards midnight, and the great ami
versary will go out with hundreds of promi-
nent New York sports hanging breathless
over the edge of a pit while the gallant little
warriors ply the gaf.